Church Resignation Forms Filed in Finland: Reasons for Resigning 2024

The online service eroakirkosta.fi allows people to resign from church by filling in an online form. After filling in the form, people are given an opportunity to explain their reasons for resigning in free-text format. This dataset consists of the reasons entered by people when quitting the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland or the Finnish Orthodox Church in 2024. The data is mainly in Finnish. Background information includes age, gender and month of leaving church. The data were organised into an easy to use HTML version at FSD. The dataset is only available in the languages used for entering the information (mainly Finnish).